Tablo DVR ENGINE for Nvidia Shield TV

Tablo DVR ENGINE for Nvidia Shield TV

Tablo turns your Nvidia Shield TV into an HDMI-connected Over-the-Air DVR with support for 5.1 surround sound and fast channel surfing. Cord cutters can now connect any TV antenna and use the beautiful Tablo DVR ENGINE app to watch and record live OTA TV directly on their Nvidia Shield TV device.

The Tablo ENGINE for Nvidia Shield delivers beautiful, high definition picture quality directly from your HDTV antenna. Far superior to what you get with cable or satellite feeds.

How It Works

Tablo transforms your Nvidia Shield TV into an Over-The-Air DVR. Designed for use with the Tablo TUNER USB adapter, the Tablo ENGINE app lets you discover, watch, and record live broadcast TV without expensive cable or satellite subscriptions.

Unlike Tablo's network-connected hardware DVRs (Tablo 2-Tuner, Tablo 4-Tuner, and Tablo DUAL) which stream live and recorded TV to multiple devices, the Tablo software OTA DVR solution for Nvidia Shield TV is designed for cord cutters who want the simplicity of an HDMI-connected DVR solution that delivers full quality video and 5.1 audio directly to a big screen TV via a beautiful, easy to use interface.

A USB hard drive - only required for storing recordings on the 16GB Nvidia Shield; recordings can be saved to internal storage on the 500 GB model

Subscriptions

The Tablo ENGINE software OTA DVR for Nvidia Shield TV includes a free, fully-featured 30-day trial of our Tablo ENGINE Guide Data Subscription, so you can try it before you buy it.

Once your trial is complete you can choose to use Tablo without a subscription. However, to enjoy the full Tablo experience, a subscription to our optional guide data service is recommended.

For a small monthly fee, our guide data provides the beautiful cover art, episode and series synopses, and metadata that make it easy for cord cutters like you to browse content and set recordings via the Tablo ENGINE app right on your Nvidia Shield TV. Without a subscription, you can continue to enjoy 24 hours of guide data and live TV.

FAQs

No. The Tablo ENGINE app is a free download from the Google Play Store. When you download Tablo ENGINE onto your Nvidia Shield, it comes with a free 30-day trial of the Tablo ENGINE Guide Data Subscription so you can try out some of the cooler features Tablo has to offer.

When you buy Tablo TUNER, we include the USB tuner adapter, a power adapter, a USB extension cable and a Quick Start Guide. The companion Tablo ENGINE DVR app is available as a free download from the Google Play Store. The Tablo TUNER/Tablo ENGINE solution comes with a free 30-day trial of the Tablo ENGINE Guide Data Subscription so you can try out some of the cooler features Tablo has to offer.

In a nutshell, Tablo OTA DVRs are whole-home cord cutting solutions, while the Tablo DVR ENGINE for Nvidia Shield TV is a Cord Cutting solution for a single TV.

Tablo OTA DVRs are best for streaming live and recorded OTA TV: A standalone hardware device with OTA TV tuners and transcoders that records content to internal/external hard drives, then transcodes and streams content over your WiFi network to powerful free apps on all of your set top boxes and mobile devices alike.

Tablo DVR ENGINE for Nvidia Shield TV is best for channel surfing live OTA TV and enjoying full 5.1 surround sound. A downloadable software DVR app paired with a simple TV antenna USB adapter that turns the Nvidia Shield itself into a DVR. The Shield can then record OTA TV content to its internal/external hard drives and play this live and recorded content on your TV through its physical HDMI connection.

Yes. You can use the Tablo DVR ENGINE For Nvidia Shield TV without a subscription. But to enjoy the full Tablo experience, a subscription to our optional guide data service is recommended. Without a Tablo subscription, you can still watch live TV but manual recordings and one-touch/series recordings, cover art, and advanced features are only available with active subscriptions. Read more about using Tablo ENGINE without a subscription on the Tablo Software OTA DVR Solution page.

No. Tablo is designed to record and stream Over-The-Air (OTA) broadcast signals from ATSC TV antennas. We do not support recording from cable or satellite signals, cableCARDs, or clear/unencrypted cable (QAM).